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Trade liberalization and the evolution of skill earnings differentials in Brazil
Gonzaga, Gustavo; Menezes Filho, Naércio; Terra, Cristina - 2002
From 1988 to 1995, when trade liberalization was implemented in Brazil, relative earnings of skilled workers decreased … trade liberalization, accounting for the observed relative earnings changes in Brazil. …
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Trade liberalization and the evolution of skill earnings differentials in Brazil
Gonzaga, Gustavo; Menezes Filho, Naércio; Terra, Cristina - 2005
Skilled labor earnings differentials decreased during the trade liberalization implemented in Brazil from 1988 to 1995 … the observed relative earnings changes in Brazil. They also highlight the importance of considering the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807329
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Short and long run decompositions of OECD wage in[e]quality changes
Edwards, T. Huw; Whalley, John - 2002
wages literature. It argues that the length of production run and degree of fixity of factors is crucial in such analyses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292022
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The Impact of International Outsourcing on the Skill Structure of Employment: Empirical Evidence from German Manufacturing Industries
Diehl, Markus - 1999
In recent publications it has been argued that the change of the skill structure of industrial employment is caused by biased technical progress rather than by increasing international trade with low wage countries. However, in linking prices for final goods with prices of primary factors, most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260524
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Restrictive immigration policy in Germany: pains and gains foregone?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Geis, Wido; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2008
Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor demand, based on elasticities of substitution between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298731
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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions: consequences for the German labor market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
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Innovation, labour demand and wages in Poland: Some introductory results using micro-macro data
Walewski, Mateusz - 2009
innovations and skill-biased wage changes. The results indicate that innovations positively influence the wages of skilled workers … while they negatively influence the wages of the unskilled. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430839
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The Value of Skills
Green, Francis - 1998
Many commentators have argued that "key skills" are becoming more important in modern workplaces. This paper draws on a survey that uses a methodology based on job analysis to measure skills at work, and estimates their implicit prices using a hedonic wage equation. The main new findings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010443312
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Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2006
high school degree). A precise assessment of the average and relative effects of immigrants on U.S. wages, however, needs … adjustment of physical capital induced by immigration, the conventional finding of immigration's impact on native wages is turned … on its head: overall immigration over the 1980- 2000 period significantly increased the average wages of U …
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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - 2010
redundancies. This results in superior predictions of individual wages and occupational switches. It also allows identifying career …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281656